From a Flight on Saturday, December 3, 2011...

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It's been a while since my last "Highlights" post,

so following are (40) entertaining aerials I hope you find enjoyable.

All were shot in either New Jersey or New York:

#1 - "Dam" project on Lake Solitude
in High Bridge, NJ

#2 - "Dam" project on Lake Solitude
in High Bridge, NJ

#3 - That's some impressive driveway
off of Route 513 in Califon, NJ

#4 - Quite an impressive "dwelling"
in Middle Valley, NJ

#5 - The bustling metropolis of Long Valley, NJ

#6 - Removal of the Netcong, NJ,
traffic circle, with construction to be
completed in about two long years

#7 - Everyone's going Solar these days
and Prudent Publishing
in Landing, NJ is no exception

#8 - Excavation of a quarry in Landing, NJ

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These next (3) photos are of the Lake Mohawk

Country Club / White Deer Plaza

in Sparta, NJ, on the northern shore of Lake Mohawk

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#12 - A peninsula jutting out into
Lake Mohawk, on the northern shore

#13 - Sterling Hill Mining Museum
in Ogdensburg, NJ

#14 - A quarry just north of the
Sterling Hill Mining Museum
in Ogdensburg, NJ

#15 - This used to be Hugh Hefner's
Great Gorge Playboy Club.  Closed in the 1980's
and sold to new owners, it still looks abandoned

#16 - New construction at the base of the Vernon/McAfee, NJ ski slopes

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The next (4) photos feature an area in southern New York known as "The Black Dirt Region", due to its rick, black, fertile dirt near Florida, NY.  Mainly onions area grown here, though other vegetables as grown as well.

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#21 - Eye-pleasing architecture on this
prison/correctional facility complex
near Middletown, NY

#22 - Some kind of a race track
near Middletown, NJ

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Ah, the Christmas shopping season is upon us

as you will see in these next (4) photos of a

bustling Middletown, NY, shopping area

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#25 - Galleria at Crystal Run
shopping mall in Middletown, NY

#26 - Galleria at Crystal Run shopping mall

in Middletown, NY

#27 - Randall airport just south of Middletown, NY

#28 - Intersection of I-84 and Route 6/17M
in Middletown, NY

#29 - Looking east at I-80 snaking
through the hills north of Hackettstown, NJ

#30 - A tightly packed array of
homes/townhomes north of Hackettstown, NJ

#31 - More homes/townhomes north
of Hackettstown, NJ

#32 - Another solar farm, owned and operated
by the M&M/Mars company in Hackettstown, NJ

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These next (2) photos are of Hackettstown, NJ

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#35 - Earthen depressions south
of Hackettstown, NJ

#36 - New construction deep in the
woods near Glen Gardner, NJ

#37 - Fanciful patterns cut into the brush
behind homes near Califon, NJ

#38 - The High Bridge Hills golf course
in High Bridge, NJ

#39 - Residential homes on the
eastern shore of the Spruce Run Reservoir
in Clinton, NJ

#40 - The sprawling complex of the
Edna Mahan Correctional Facility
for Women in Clinton, NJ

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Wow...What a flight. A bit bumpy at times and a headwind we just couldn't shake. Still though, a small price to pay for such incredible visibility as far as the eye could see, complete with unobstructed views of the Catskill mountain range (sorry, no pictures of this) all the way from northern New Jersey.

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See you on the next Flight....